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Print Screen Use this method to print screen. Press and hold down the Alt key and the press the PrtSc key, this places the screen image into the Clipboard. . Open a blank Word document and then Click on Edit - Paste. The image is then places onto this page, you can up the image by holding down the Shift key and then place the cursor on the bottom corner of the image, then press the left mouse button and drag it down to the right, release the mouse button when you have d the image to your requirements. NOTE - Holding down the Shift button will maintain the image in the correct proportion. You can now print this image document and or add text before printing.
To print the screen what you see, Press the Print Scn Button on top row of your keyboard.
Open Paint Brush or Microsoft Word and mouse right click and click left click on Paste.
Click on File and Print button or CTRL + P key to open the print dialog box and click print.
It used to be much easier earlier when there were dot matrix printer which would directly print when Print screen button was pressed. But today you need to follow this work around to print the screen
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It's NOT really straightforward, but is doable.
Here's How:
Press the Print Screen key on your keyboard. It may be labeled [PrtScn].
Open an image editing program, such as Microsoft Paint.
Go to the Edit menu and choose Paste.
If prompted to enlarge the image, choose Yes.
Optional: Use your image editor's crop tool to crop out unnecessary portions of the screen shot.
Go to the File Menu and choose Save As.
Navigate to the folder where you want to save the image.
Type a file name for the image.
Select a file type.
Click the Save button.
Tips:
Hold the Alt key down while pressing Print Screen to capture only the active window.
Generally the GIF format works best when saving screen shots of application windows. The JPEG format usually makes screen shots (especially those with text) blurry, blotchy and discolored.
Yes - the PrintScreen button is really mis-named.
You can find programs that do a far better job of capture screen images. Like this one.. http://www.etrusoft.com/
I don't think that the print screen key actually sends the current screen to the printer to print out. It used to do this way back when. What it does do though is capture the screen, which you can then paste into something like MS Paint or Photoshop or even MS Word. If you press just the "Print Screen" key on it's own, no function keys or shift or anything else, it will capture the entire screen. If you hold down the "Alt" key then press the "Print Screen" key, it will capture whatever window you have in focus at that point. So to capture just an error box message for example, you click in it with the mouse to make sure it's the active window (not grayed out title bar) then hold "Alt" press "Print Screen" then release the "Alt" key. You can then paste that into an image or word document by right clicking the mouse and selecting paste, or by holding down the "Ctrl" key and pressing V.
I hope this is what you were wanting to figure out when you were talking about the print screen key, and hopefully this will have helped you and cleared up a few things. :-)
On my HP Pavilion DV9500 with Win7 64 bit (laptop was new in 2007 and had Vista), I have the same problem, and I press FN-insert/scroll key and this works as the print screen button. That's the function key together with the insert key, which is 2 buttons to the left of the print screen key.
On notebooks you have to hold the function key to access the secondary functions of various keys. The function key usualy has the symbol "Fn" and is three spaces to the left of the space bar. Hold that down and then press the "prt sc" button.
Once you are on the screen you want to save, press the PrtScn button once. Now go into Word, Wordperfect, Works, etc. (any word processing program), open a new document, and hold down the Ctrl key and press the V key and it will paste the screen into the document.
I had the same problem and found out that I had to press the "F Lock" key first. I have no idea what F Lock is or who ever pushed it...but now print screen works the way I was accustomed to. Go Figure
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